Random thing you loathe right now.

Agathos wrote:

Do competitive Super Smash Bros Melee players still collect tube TVs?

Really dedicated arcade builders collect tube TVs. But they're a pretty small group.

https://reddit.com/r/cade/

Game consoles prior to Generation 7 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) look better on a CRT. I've been considering getting one, but I have no idea where I'd put it.

IMAGE(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/29/6a/ae/296aae63291ffaff45c0cb07befe2291--robot-costumes-saga.jpg)
This counts as another way to bypass the filters.

We still had a 20", formerly my wife's dorm TV years ago, that we kept for NES/SNES/N64 and had in our guest room. But with the baby coming a year and a half ago and me finally getting NES and SNES classic systems around that time when they did restocks, we finally got rid of it.

I had one of (if not THE) last Panasonic 36 inch CRTs. Moved it three times: from my apartment to my Mom's house, then into the house I bought when I got married, and then into a friend's house that we gave it to after we upgraded.

It was freaking HEAVY! I don’t miss it.

pyxistyx wrote:

Welp. Terfs won. Looks like any chance at revision to the gender certificate process is dead, and a country-wide ban on pre-op trans women from using the correct public women's spaces is on the cards. This is on top of them already sabotaging appropriate medical treatments for trans kids to ensure they are all forced through a psychological and physically irreparable puberty.

Despite the consultation being over 70% in favour of trans men and women. They just ignored their own consultation and went ahead with it anyway.

I can't even begin to formulate how much i despise the f*cking Tories.

My only hope now is that the Scottish version of this (delayed due to covid) comes back with a little more humanity.

Here in the US we took one step forward...

The supreme court has ruled that a landmark 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination in a historic victory for the LGBTQ+ community.
The six-to-three verdict is the biggest victory for LGBTQ+ rights since the court upheld marriage equality in 2015 and for the first time extends federal workplace protections to LGBTQ+ workers nationwide.
The case concerned whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin and sex, also covered LGBTQ+ workers.
“Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids,” justice Neil Gorsuch wrote.

But then...

Under the Trump administration many conservative state legislatures have advanced bills that target the rights of transgender people in particular. On Friday the Trump administration rolled back Obama-era healthcare protections for transgender Americans.

Both quotes are from an article in The Guardian by Dominic Rushe

At work we have an arcade cabinet with an actual tube screen in it.

Work is closing our office to be full-time WFH until there's a vaccine at the least.

The cabinet has to go somewhere.

What has 2 thumbs and has movers bringing a MAME game cabinet to his house in a week or two? THIS GUY.

Looking forward to being lame and never getting around to playing it here at home, rather than in the office.

@Ranger Rick, that's bloody AWESOME and belongs in the Love thread.

Bet it's heavy as hell!

ThatGuy42 wrote:

@Ranger Rick, that's bloody AWESOME and belongs in the Love thread.

Oh it's awesome, I was just piling onto the CRT conversation. I'll post it there once I actually have it.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Bet it's heavy as hell!

I bet it is too. Glad I'm not moving it.

That feeling when you hear the chirping of a young bird in the garden but realise that the sound is hurtling towards at a rate of knots signifying that the little creature is being transported in your direction by Flynn The Merciless.

Planters fasciitis

For plantar fascitis, the trick is to stretch your calves. All the weird little stretches and devices for under the foot arch are okay, but it’s tight calves that contribute heavily. I suffered from it for a few years and ran into a podiatrist at a UFC match, and he let me know this. Cleared it up in a few weeks.

It’s brutally painful, though. I can confirm from personally experience. I had to wear MBTs for 6 months and do all kinds of new stretches.

That's why I posted, DS. It was the stretches that finished it for me. It's never come back. IT HAS NEVER COME BACK.

Robear wrote:

...ran into a podiatrist at a UFC match...

I didn’t know you were a cage fighter. That’s sick!

Foot slappy fight!

In Canada, the government deposits child benefits and a child tax benefits into your bank account. The number is calculated by your income. Since we are a single income family with two children under the age of 5 and technically fall below the poverty line we get the full benefits. Last month everyone receiving benefits gain a boost due to covid-19. The government were unclear whether that was one-time or recurring.

Since I'm posting in this thread, you can infer that it wasn't a one time payment. Now our monthly payment is actually 0.09 less than it was before the boost. No explanation. Government website doesn't detail why this is. Very frustrated with the messaging and lack of information.

The forums seem noticeably pissy the last few days. People in a local Discord I'm in have also been noticeably irritable lately. The stress of the last few months, and years, feels unending, and I don't really blame anyone for letting it get to them. Just bums me out.

Vector wrote:

In Canada, the government deposits child benefits and a child tax benefits into your bank account. The number is calculated by your income. Since we are a single income family with two children under the age of 5 and technically fall below the poverty line we get the full benefits. Last month everyone receiving benefits gain a boost due to covid-19. The government were unclear whether that was one-time or recurring.

Since I'm posting in this thread, you can infer that it wasn't a one time payment. Now our monthly payment is actually 0.09 less than it was before the boost. No explanation. Government website doesn't detail why this is. Very frustrated with the messaging and lack of information.

Didn't the new fiscal year start this month, so would be a reflection of your income filed for last year? Might have started in May, but wouldn't have noticed because of the one time bump?

beanman101283 wrote:

The forums seem noticeably pissy the last few days. People in a local Discord I'm in have also been noticeably irritable lately. The stress of the last few months, and years, feels unending, and I don't really blame anyone for letting it get to them. Just bums me out.

I was telling my staff to try and be kind to everyone with whom they interact as literally every person you talk to right now is slightly f*cked in the head. We are all dealing with anxiety about the economy/politics/covid quarantine. We are all kind of basket cases right now, every single one of us.

Old Man Pi wrote:
Vector wrote:

In Canada, the government deposits child benefits and a child tax benefits into your bank account. The number is calculated by your income. Since we are a single income family with two children under the age of 5 and technically fall below the poverty line we get the full benefits. Last month everyone receiving benefits gain a boost due to covid-19. The government were unclear whether that was one-time or recurring.

Since I'm posting in this thread, you can infer that it wasn't a one time payment. Now our monthly payment is actually 0.09 less than it was before the boost. No explanation. Government website doesn't detail why this is. Very frustrated with the messaging and lack of information.

Didn't the new fiscal year start this month, so would be a reflection of your income filed for last year? Might have started in May, but wouldn't have noticed because of the one time bump?

That makes a lot of sense and not something I considered. Thanks!

Our big TV won't turn on unless we leave it unplugged for a day or two. Just in time for my study break, where I was hoping to get a lot of gaming done.

Sounds like a capacitor issue, maybe? Not too sure but it's either an expensive new TV or slightly less expensive repair job. Here's hoping it's the latter...Ugh.

SallyNasty wrote:
beanman101283 wrote:

The forums seem noticeably pissy the last few days. People in a local Discord I'm in have also been noticeably irritable lately. The stress of the last few months, and years, feels unending, and I don't really blame anyone for letting it get to them. Just bums me out.

I was telling my staff to try and be kind to everyone with whom they interact as literally every person you talk to right now is slightly f*cked in the head. We are all dealing with anxiety about the economy/politics/covid quarantine. We are all kind of basket cases right now, every single one of us.

It's more than just being "f*cked in the head" (not the best phrase to use there--it's along the same lines as calling someone with a personality disorder as simply "crazy"). It's about watching people that we know and are friends with dismiss science and evidence of issues within our society by either outright denying it or thinking that they know better.

Sure, being quarantined comes with its own challenges and issues, but when you go to the grocery store and have someone without a mask get in your face and tell you that "the virus doesn't spread that way (through the air)", it should make you more than a little upset because of the danger to others that way of thinking causes. Or when those same people think that the protests are just excuses for violence so they don't have to face the real issue, that is also going to make you upset. So, if someone you interact with on a regular basis has some views like that, you're going to be a bit more hostile toward them in general.

We've gotten past the point where we just put on a fake smile when someone says something so ridiculous because it's not worth the conflict or we want to be polite. I think we're just seeing that play out everywhere now.

I got about 2 hours of sleep last night. At first I thought it was because it was so freaking hot. And, to be fair, that is probably part of it. Then this morning I realized that I forgot to take my anti-anxiety medication last night, and it suddenly made a lot more sense.

I do want to get off of that med, since I take a very small dose, but this is definitely something I would want medical opinion on before embarking on that (potentially) disrupting journey.

I've had similar experiences. I too use a small dose, and so I really feel it if I miss a day. Stick with it; sleep is seriously important, not just day to day, but to prevent dementia and also stress-related problems over time.

Robear wrote:

I've had similar experiences. I too use a small dose, and so I really feel it if I miss a day. Stick with it; sleep is seriously important, not just day to day, but to prevent dementia and also stress-related problems over time.

I've struggled with sleep my entire life, and I've read a lot about it, which I have stopped some time ago, when I realized that knowing more about it was adding to my anxiety rather than diminish it. I just don't like the idea of having to rely on medication to be able to function properly.

Funnily enough, I have somewhat the same attitude regarding my asthma medication, but I haven't been using that one as much as I used to ever since I started doing cardio training (I went from needing it every day to having to take it once or twice a month, despite living with two cats).

For me, OCD and ADD is like missing a limb. I can hobble along without a drug, but I'll probably suffer a lot and die early from the stress effects. Take half a tiny pill a day, and I enjoy life, in general. Small sacrifice for huge benefit.

Diabetes and mental issues are both bodily malfunctions. If you had diabetes, you might not like taking insulin, but would you stop? Probably not. Medications for brain chemical issues should be viewed exactly the same way, I believe.

Got no sleep. Just trying to stay up until I can go to bed properly. And not wreck my sleep cycle anymore.

Burnt the skin off the roof of my mouth with too hot lunch, didn't have water with me. I hope it doesn't get infected or anything. I can't handle much more at the moment.

Edit 2h later, now I have a bad cut on my index finger that I don't even know how I got. I want to give up.